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H. AR. HBYL.

- SUSPENSION DEVICE.

No. 284,129. Patented Aug. 28,1883.

UNITED vSrn'rls FFI() PATENT V SUSPENSION DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,129, dated August28, 1.883.

Application inea December 2e, 1882. (No motel.)

To all whom it may concern):

Be it known that I, HENRY It. HEYL, a citizen of theUnited States,residing in the city and county of Fhiladelphia, StateA of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful.l Im-` provement in Suspension-Rings,which improvement is fullyset forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in

trate the application of the device on a re-V duced scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The object of this invention is to provide suspension rings forcalendars, cards, pictures, and other articles, which can be securelyattached thereto by adhesion, thus avoiding piercing, covering, orotherwise defacing the articles to be suspended, and whichalso havetheir rings ory loops adapted to be folded or reversed to lie fiat on oragainst the articles in order that'the latter may be better envelopedfor mailingthan when the vrings project beyond the edges of the same, asexist y in suspension-rings in common use, the construction andoperation of my device being hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a metallic ring or loop, and Brepresents an adhesive tablet of paper or other flexible materialconnected with said ring or loop, forming together a complete deviceready for attachment to light articles as a means of suspension thereof.The ring or loop has a portion of its periphery made in the present casestraight or right-lined, as at c, said portion being preferably the endsof the piece of wire of which the ring or loop is formed, said endsbeing bent toward each other. The tablet consists of a body, I), andtongue c projecting .from one side thereof, both cut from a piece ofstrong paper or other suitable flexible material, having one of itsfaces previously coated with adhesive substance, the width of the baseof said tongue being slightly less than that of the rightlined part ctof the ring or loop. The tongue is inserted in the ring or loop A,

and bent around the right-lined part a thereof, forming a loop in thetablet, and the gummed or adhesive coating of the tongue is inoistened,the tongue and body meeting then being pressed together, whereby theyare united, and the ring or loop and the tablet i firmly connected bywhat Vmay be termed a hinge-joint ready for use, it being noticed f orloop is unfolded and salient, as in Figs. 3, j 5.` and 6, the articlemay be readily and r'eliably hung from a nail, tack, &c. When thedevices or the articles to which they are attached are to be boxed,inclosed in envelopes, packed, Sto., the rings or loops are folded `incompact form onthe tablets, as in Fig. 4., and it will be seen thatneither the tablets nor the rings project beyond the edges of theattached articles, whereby the length of the package is not increased.

I am aware that it is not new to connect rings with folded leather bandsand metallic eyes,*and do not claim the same.

I am also aware that it is not new to form a suspension ring or loop ofa folded piece, the parts of which present both a body and an eye, of apiece `which is cut out to forma tongue and leave an eye, and of foldedpieces` HENRY R. HEYL.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WrEDnRsHEIM,` A. I. GRANT.

